Good decent knife

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Okay this sounds really weird I know :o but can anyone recommend a good knife?


I'm at uni and currently we only have these really crap semi serrated knife's to use which cost £2 for 6 from asda.


I'm looking to purchase myself a decent slicing sort of knife that I can maintain myself. It will be used for lots of things but more for meat etc.

I have a budget of around £50 (would be wanting something that I could have for a number for years though). I saw some stuff in a shop in town, but all the models mean jack all to me.

thanks
 
I would say pop down to Tesco's and get yourself a decent knife, should set you back about £2.50.

Don't you students eat pot noodles with a fork anyway? :D
 
You don't need to spend anywhere near £50 to get a reasonable set of knives. Anything over £15 will be more than sufficient - you are students, after all.
 
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turn over onto shopping channel. buy whatever cheapo knife they are hyping. they will be better than most and cheaper than the best

students dont need expensive or the best knives

students wanting knives should buy things like a katana, or sharpen spoons
 
I said it before in another thread, but look in TK maxx, they often have high end cookware at silly prices (yes, I said high end cookware... those still on planet Tefal probably would not understand lol)

I've got some lovely stuff from there recently. if there are a few branches near you, have a look at them all as they all have different stuff in.
 
shoot1st said:
I would say pop down to Tesco's and get yourself a decent knife, should set you back about £2.50.
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The only thing those knives are good for is for chavs stabbing each other, ahh, comforting evolutionary thoughts.

Get a global, they're great knives, you'll never need to replace a global, good investment.
 
victorinox. good knives. good prices. You can buy the worlds most expensive awesome knife , but unless you also buy a steel, it'll become the worlds most expensive blunt knife after as little as 1 or 2 uses. 12-15 for a knife, 10 or so for a steel and you should be set.

this: http://www.nisbets.co.uk/products/productdetail.asp?productCode=C680 plus the little veg knife set for less than a tenner + a steel an you'll be sorted.
 
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Burnsy2023 said:
Is a good steel included in that £50? It'd be pointless without it - literally.
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yep this is important. A decent steel is £10-£15 so 35-40 for a knife. That lion sabiter I posted just fits in budget with a steel and will last ages. A 6" chief knife is all you need to begin with and can do everything.
 
I know nothing about 50 quid knives, but can say that the 8 quid general purpose knife I bought from m&s is orders of magnitude better than the six knives for a fiver I bought previously.

No doubt it'll end up blunt, as I don't know what a 'steel' is, but it's been going strong for months now.
 
I would go try holding a few knives in a decent shop before making your decision really. I can't get on with Globals myself due to the handles. If you hit an artery while carving... I mean chop veg with the handle a bit wet it can get a tad difficult.
 
JonJ678 said:
I know nothing about 50 quid knives, but can say that the 8 quid general purpose knife I bought from m&s is orders of magnitude better than the six knives for a fiver I bought previously.

No doubt it'll end up blunt, as I don't know what a 'steel' is, but it's been going strong for months now.
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A decent knife is liek day and knight over a cheap knife. It actually cuts rather than mashing and makes life so much easier. People bang on about getting sets. BTBH you can get away with one 6" knife.

A steel is used to sharpen a knife, without a steel a knife will go blunt within several uses.

Cybermyk said:
I would go try holding a few knives in a decent shop before making your decision really. I can't get on with Globals myself due to the handles. If you hit an artery while carving... I mean chop veg with the handle a bit wet it can get a tad difficult.
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Agree with this, also find global handles are awful if you have hot hands.
 
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as I don't know what a 'steel' is
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When you sharpen a knife to a very fine polished edge it becomes very fine and as such will tend to bend to one side during use. A steel is a very hard piece of steel that will bend the edge back into shape. Useful to keep the blade at its very sharpest and its very quick to use.

Whats the best thing to sharpen kitchen knives with? I have a 750/400 grit diamond stone and a 1000/8000 grit Japanese wet stone, which i use for sharpening my chisels and plane blades but i find it very hard to not round the edge when sharpening knives. Is there a decent sharpening tool out there that will give a nice polished edge?
 
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